Neil Mabbott
@neilmabbott1
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Dad, professor of immunopathology, but mainly chef to my wife & kids
Joined April 2014
Fascinating study just out in @Nature reporting that lithium supplementation using lithium orotate may offer new hope for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and reversal of memory loss.
nature.com
Nature - Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the...
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Kicked off the #LongestDayOfTheYear with a swim across Loch Lubnaig 🏴. Back home in the fog in Edinburgh now 🌫🏰
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Fascinating read on the history of peer review. Great quote "anonymous reviewer considered the letter too speculative, more appropriate ‘over Martinis’ than in a communication to Journal of. " 🍸😆Apparently only became a requirement in @nature from 1973!
royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper examines the refereeing procedures at the scientific weekly Nature during and after World War II. In 1939 former editorial assistants L. J. F. Brimble and A. J. V. Gale assumed a joint...
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A week of gigs this week, each very different. First up, @robbiewilliams at Murrayfield. As Robbie himself said, it wasn't cool, but he certainly did entertain us!
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Measles is a serious disease. An increased number of #vaccine preventable measles cases has been recorded in Scotland. Two shots of the MMR vaccine provides life-long protection against measles, and is estimated to have saved over 90 million lives.
bbc.co.uk
Health chiefs say more measles cases have already been recorded this year than during the whole of 2024.
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First steps along the route to Everest Base Camp 🇳🇵 and already feeling insignificant compared to the porters
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RT @jennieep: ✨It’s Vaccine Engagement Day from @britsocimm✨.Join us as we #CelebrateVaccines & share evidence based resources about how va….
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#CelebrateVaccines because #VaccinesWork.For example, our systematic review of 50 independent studies suggests that the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 and Moderna mRNA-1273 #mRNAvaccines confer robust protection against #COVID19 hospitalization.
academic.oup.com
AbstractBackground. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2, and Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccines were central to the g
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#CelebrateVaccines because #VaccinesWork.For example, a single dose of the MVA–BN smallpox vaccine significantly lowers the risk of Mpox virus infection in high-risk close contacts.
academic.oup.com
Summary. The Mpox virus (MPXV) is endemic in certain countries in Central and West Africa, where several mammalian species, especially rodents, are natural
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#CelebrateVaccines because #VaccinesWork.For example, the HPV vaccine has slashed cervical cancer rates.
news.cancerresearchuk.org
The HPV vaccine is preventing the highest number of cervical cancer cases in the most deprived groups in England.
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Our paper just out showing effects of LPS on #macrophages increases susceptibility to #prion infection by 100X.
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Acute LPS exposure enhances susceptibility to peripheral prion infection
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RT @LabBartz: The authors show data indicating that soil extracts contain boba fide prion infectivity following inoculation into transgenic….
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Bleak weather outside, but a great start to 2025 with the New Year's concert by @SCOmusic and soprano Juliana Zara
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With official work email traffic grinding to a halt over the Christmas & New Year break, it's astonishing how many predatory conference & journal emails I've received. Some even threatening to send the heavies round to my house if I don't respond! 😟👮♂️.
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